At a Conference organised by the East Midlands Tenant Participation Forum more than 120 tenants and Tenant Involvement Officers got to hear about a range of Government policies and then vote on them. Delegates expressed profound concern both about Government policies and the very mixed response of their landlords to the requirements of the new Regulatory Framework. Delegates gave resounding 1 out of 10’s to flagship Government policies including flexible tenancies, housing benefit reform and the future of regulation and even where they marked higher scores on the future of tenant involvement and Housing Revenue Account reform these were tempered by dissatisfaction about the way Government policies were working. A number of tenants, from both Local Authority and Housing Association landlords related stories about how their landlord was taking no notice on the requirements for tenant scrutiny, scrapping tenant involvement structures and bolting on, without consultation, scrutiny into existing structures without clear purpose. Read more on 24dash.
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